tim
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"Reformation is necessary and despair is criminal." Computational biologist; US-Canadian (Team Canada); he/him. Vancouver is unceded land.
present day. present time
present day. present time
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We need to build homes, everywhere, for all kinds of people. That's how you solve a housing crisis.
Most of Vancouver is de facto a gated community for rich people. It’s been said many times, but can’t be said often enough.
Luckily, this is going to change!
Luckily, this is going to change!
Your regular reminder that it takes a ginormous amount of privilege to claim that our low-density neighbourhoods are "working".
(Old data, but story did not change.)
(Old data, but story did not change.)
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We need to build homes, everywhere, for all kinds of people. That's how you solve a housing crisis.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Liang was telling me about premium head-of-lift-line ski passes and I kinda think anyone who buys it should be loudly booed for exercising their privileges
My NEXUS card is fine, though 🙃
My NEXUS card is fine, though 🙃
December 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Liang was telling me about premium head-of-lift-line ski passes and I kinda think anyone who buys it should be loudly booed for exercising their privileges
My NEXUS card is fine, though 🙃
My NEXUS card is fine, though 🙃
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"I think good writing—clear thinking—matters. Not much, but a little! This is a minority position, I am learning." Chris Hooks on Olivia Nuzzi, Joan Didion, and the self-delusions of our current moment newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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This is going around On Here for some reason and I want to unpack it a little, not because the ultimate aim (Big Pharma gets too much market exclusivity in the US) but bc it’s mostly wrong on the law & the policy prescription for the problem
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Big Pharma Can Tweak Drugs to Keep Generics Off the Market
Taking advantage of a broken patent system, Big Pharma is making minor tweaks to medications just to keep affordable generics off the market, a new report suggests. They’ve made billions of dollars in...
jacobin.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is going around On Here for some reason and I want to unpack it a little, not because the ultimate aim (Big Pharma gets too much market exclusivity in the US) but bc it’s mostly wrong on the law & the policy prescription for the problem
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jacobin.com/2025/06/big-...
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jacobin.com/2025/06/big-...
tried to replace an old duplex outlet on my balcony with a gfci. discovered the metal junction box was very narrow. tried taping around the contacts to keep them from shorting against the box. a loud popping noise, flash of yellow light, and smell of ozone have shown me the error of my ways
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
tried to replace an old duplex outlet on my balcony with a gfci. discovered the metal junction box was very narrow. tried taping around the contacts to keep them from shorting against the box. a loud popping noise, flash of yellow light, and smell of ozone have shown me the error of my ways
the music video for destroyer's "bologna" (about faking your death and running away) works as a sequel to sufjan steven's "up on a housetop" (moving to the kitchen and you get your passport / up on the housetop, spirit of the dead / down through the chimney is what the man said / who wouldn't go?)
Sufjan Stevens, "Up On The Housetop (featuring Vesper Stamper)" [Track 3/9, Vol. 10]
YouTube video by Asthmatic Kitty Records
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
the music video for destroyer's "bologna" (about faking your death and running away) works as a sequel to sufjan steven's "up on a housetop" (moving to the kitchen and you get your passport / up on the housetop, spirit of the dead / down through the chimney is what the man said / who wouldn't go?)
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
the annual tradition of spending five minutes in front of the dairy case deciding between dairyland's "original" and "classic" eggnogs
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
the annual tradition of spending five minutes in front of the dairy case deciding between dairyland's "original" and "classic" eggnogs
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RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
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“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”
stumbled across the menu i planned for a lab retreat, that time we rented out an airbnb in san clemente. my culinary efforts perhaps outpaced my scientific contributions that weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
stumbled across the menu i planned for a lab retreat, that time we rented out an airbnb in san clemente. my culinary efforts perhaps outpaced my scientific contributions that weekend
i have given up on browning chicken thighs in my dutch oven. they stick ferociously no matter what i do. i have started browning thighs in my non-stick instead and it is _so_ much less stressful
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
i have given up on browning chicken thighs in my dutch oven. they stick ferociously no matter what i do. i have started browning thighs in my non-stick instead and it is _so_ much less stressful
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It appears that pretty much all Hong Kong-based newsfluencers, even those with international bylines or appearances, got a memo within the last 12 hours that they should shut up about the deadly fire, or else face consequences.
Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday
Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
It appears that pretty much all Hong Kong-based newsfluencers, even those with international bylines or appearances, got a memo within the last 12 hours that they should shut up about the deadly fire, or else face consequences.
Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday
Related: the city's "Patriots-only" legislature has elections Sunday
i was invited to sing along to a traditional arrangement of "The Holly and the Ivy" today and i made a royal hash of it because i only know the Los Campesinos! version. it is one of my favourite winter tunes
Los Campesinos! - The Holly & The Ivy (2025 Remaster) (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Los Campesinos!
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
i was invited to sing along to a traditional arrangement of "The Holly and the Ivy" today and i made a royal hash of it because i only know the Los Campesinos! version. it is one of my favourite winter tunes
Don't be jealous, but I just got to ride one of the @translink.ca E40LFR trollies with the aquarium retrofit
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Don't be jealous, but I just got to ride one of the @translink.ca E40LFR trollies with the aquarium retrofit
I used a quote from “Arcadia” at the front of my thesis. Perhaps it cheapened Stoppard’s work without uplifting mine, but how could I resist? I am grateful for his works. He was a genius of language; sparkling, prismatic, sincere.
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I used a quote from “Arcadia” at the front of my thesis. Perhaps it cheapened Stoppard’s work without uplifting mine, but how could I resist? I am grateful for his works. He was a genius of language; sparkling, prismatic, sincere.
I had the good fortune to see Deb at this event and she put me on to Powerline, a podcast miniseries from @outsideinradio.bsky.social about Hydro-Québec, its projects in the North, its relationship to Francophone and indigenous communities, and (failed) projects to bring low-carbon power to Boston
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I had the good fortune to see Deb at this event and she put me on to Powerline, a podcast miniseries from @outsideinradio.bsky.social about Hydro-Québec, its projects in the North, its relationship to Francophone and indigenous communities, and (failed) projects to bring low-carbon power to Boston
I've been playing with Duolingo Music and it's odd to me that there's no way to practice part of a song on your own; you always have to start at the beginning of a song and progress linearly. Makes it very hard to nail trickier passages
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've been playing with Duolingo Music and it's odd to me that there's no way to practice part of a song on your own; you always have to start at the beginning of a song and progress linearly. Makes it very hard to nail trickier passages
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.